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Christians all gather on the day of the sun, for it is the first day after the Jewish Sabbath, but also the first day when God separating matter from darkness, made the world; and on this same day Jesus Christ, our savior, rose from the dead.
For Christians, Sunday symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ’s Resurrection. Sunday is our first of all days, the first of all feasts – The Lord’s Day.
The celebration of Sunday fulfills the moral command of the Old Testament’s Covenant to render God an outward, visible, public and regular weekly worship “as a sign of his universal beneficence to all.
The Sunday celebration of the Lord’s Day and his Eucharist is at the heart of the Church’s life and is observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church.
Sunday is sanctified by assisting during Mass, by prayer, and by abstaining from unnecessary servile work.

"These are words which concern the very essence of the Eucharist. Behold, Christ came into the world to bestow upon man divine life. He not only proclaimed the Good News but He also instituted the Eucharist which is to make present until the end of time His redeeming mystery. And as the means of expressing this He chose the elements of nature - the bread and wine, the food and drink that man must consume to maintain his life. The Eucharist is precisely this food and drink. This food contains in itself all the power of the Redemption wrought by Christ. In order to live man needs food and drink. In order to gain eternal life man needs the Eucharist. This is the food and drink that transforms man's life and opens before him the way to eternal life. By consuming the Body and Blood of Christ, man bears within himself, already on this earth, the seed of eternal life, for the Eucharist is the sacrament of life in God. Christ says: "As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me." (Jn 6:57). 

Pope John Paul II, Homily Excerpt